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Articles tagged with: Semiconductors
An Old Dream Fulfilled: Zinc Oxide as Semiconductor
..ctor. This standard process in the manufacturing of conventional semiconductors e.g. silicon or germanium has however been problematic for zinc oxide to date. In particular, it has been difficult to achieve p-doping, which made it impossible more
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Consumer Weakness Drives Negative Outlook for Semiconductors in 2009
..ogy risk within the technology industry. Consumer electronics lead semiconductors lower in 2009: Consumer electronics, particularly PCs and cell phone units, which have been the catalyst for semiconductor expansion over the past several years, wi more
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Semiconductor Sales Up 5.5% on Strong Mobile Phone Sales
Worldwide sales of semiconductors grew by 5.5 percent to $22.7 billion in August from August 2007 sales of $21.5 billion. Sales grew by 2.4 percent from July when sales were $22.2 billion.Year-to-date sales through August were $170.2 billion, an increase of 4.5 percent from the same period of 2007 when sales were $162.9 billion. more
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Sony CEO Expresses Concerns About Sony Ericsson Joint Venture
..h 2000 at a Philips factory in Albuquerque, the sole supplier of semiconductors to Ericsson nearly crippled the company. The stated reason for this venture is to combine Sony's consumer electronics expertise with Ericsson's technological leader more
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Intel CTO Says Gap Between Humans, Machines Will Close by 2050
..mpound semiconductors to replace silicon in the transistor channel. Looking further out, Intel is exploring into a variety of non-charge-based technologies that could one day replace CMOS altogether. Robots: From the Factory Floor to Your Kitc more
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STMicroelectronics and Ericsson to Merge Mobile Chip, Applications Units
..ext step that Ericsson and ST are taking to create the global leader in wireless semiconductors. To help ensure the success of the joint venture going forward all NXP's supply and support agreements will continue as planned. The additional proc more
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Worldwide Chip Sales Up 5.4 Percent in First Half of 2008
Global sales of semiconductors for the first half of 2008 grew to $127.5 billion, an increase of 5.4 percent over the first half of 2007 when sales were $121 billion, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) has reported. June sales of $21.6 billion were up by 8 percent from the $20 billion reported for June 2007. June sales increased by 0.5 percent from May, when sales were $21.5 billion. Second-quarter sales of $64.7 billion increased by 3 percent over first-quarter sales of $62.8 billion. more
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Designed in China: Domestically Conceived Chip Market Booms in Nation
..rom 2007 to 2012, according to iSuppli. By 2012, $42.1 billion worth of Chinese-designed semiconductors will be purchased for use in electronic equipment made in the nation, up 63.4 percent from $25.8 billion in 2007. "The growth of China's sem more
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Compressing light could open doors for optical communications
..been working on combining plasmonics and semiconductors, where these losses are even more pronounced, when he came up with an idea to achieve simultaneously strong confinement of the light and mitigate the losses. His theoretical "hybrid&q more
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Openwave Sells Mobile Phone Client Software Business to Purple Labs
Openwave Systems has sold its mobile phone software business to French mobile Lunix developer, Purple Labs for US$30 million in cash plus options. more
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